Tuesday 18th March 1919

Billets at Montecchia di Crosara

Pte. John William Addison (see 17^th February) was transferred from 39^th Casualty Clearing Station to 57^th General Hospital in Marseilles; he was suffering from an abscess in his left groin.

Pte. Ernest Binns (see 10^th July 1917) who had been wounded in June 1917, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to his wounds; his degree of disability was stated to be 70% and he would be awarded an Army pension of 19s. 3d. per week, to be reviewed after one year. 

Pte. Sidney Wood (see 22^nd October 1918), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to wounds suffered in action; his disability was assessed as 80% and he was awarded a pension of 32s. per week, to be reviewed after one year.  

Sgts. Charles Marsden (see 15^th February) and Lionel Vickers (see 18^th February); L.Cpls. Alfred Ellis (see 14^th February) and Fred Riddiough (see 14^th February) and Ptes. Arthur Clarke (see 14^th February), Thomas Fielden (see 14^th February), William Johnson (13666) (see 27^th October 1918), William Harker (see 25^th November 1918), Charles Frederick Marsden MM (see 24^th January), Ned Metcalfe MM (see 27^th October 1918) and Leonard Beaconsfield Turner (see 15^th February) were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

At home in Perth, Nellie Walker, wife of Pte. Samuel Walker (see 31^st August 1918), died from pneumonia; her husband, who was home on demobilization leave from 2DWR, was with his wife when she died.

A payment of £40 12s. 1d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances (including a war grant of £24 10s.) to the late Pte. George Carter (see 11^th October 1918), who had been killed in October 1918 while serving in France with 2^nd/6^th DWR; the payment would go to his mother, Martha. She would also receive a parcel of her late son’s personal effects comprising of, ‘letters, photos, educational certificate, cards, wallet’.